Colors are off on the Nokia N95? Tests show the answer is undoubtedly yes

James recently saw that Paul posted a few pictures with his Nokia N95 from his recent trip to the beach.

He noted that Paul’s pictures had a red tint to them; going so far as to say that the images are "from mars." He posted a color corrected version and proved his point rather well.

Since he is using a Mac I’m assuming the color correction was done with iPhoto or Photoshop. Let us know James!

Being a Windows user, I downloaded Google’s Picasa (freeware) to see if I could get similar results.

Are you familiar with Google (NSDQ: GOOG)’s "I’m feeling lucky" button? It automatically takes you the first result of your search. They have the same thing in Picasa:

All I did was take a few pictures from around the net, all taken on a Nokia (NYSE: NOK) N95, imported them in to Picasa, hit "I’m feeling lucky," and the results speak for themselves.

Let’s start with Paul’s picture of the beach:

Picasa’s magic:

Symbian Freak’s VW:

Picasafied:

Symbian Freak’s Mercedes:

I’m Feeling Lucky Version:

Rafe’s Cat:

Google’s Voodoo:

Darla Mack spotted a fish tank while dining out:

Picasa Micasa Su Casa:

What can we conclude?

The Nokia N95 needs better onboard post processing.

If you have a Nokia camera phone, then do yourself a favor and use a post processing tool to correct your colors.

Can the N Series team comment on this? Can you explain the distorted colors? Can it be fixed with firmware?

UPDATE: One more image. This is the second picture Paul took:

Original:

The power of a single mouse click:

Huge difference.